An Appraisal of Search Strategy and Approaches Employed by the Indian Academics for the Use of Online Database: A Critical Study of Universities in Kota, Rajasthan

This study is set out to investigate search strategy and approaches used by the academics in the use of online database in Indian especially in Kota. To achieved this objectives four research questions were raise and answered. The survey method was employed in the conduct of this study. The target population of the study comprised of senior Academics who are working in Indian Universities especially in Kota, Rajasthan. The total number of 480 and 5% were randomly selected as sample with the total of 24 academics. The instrument used for data collection was questionnaire; the data collected for the study were presented and analyzed using descriptive statistics, Frequency distribution tables, percentages and histograms were used for the descriptive statistics. The study discovered that majority of Academics were not using almost the online available due to lack of access of such resources by the university libraries, simple search strategy, limiter search and were the major search strategy applied by the academics and Therefore, the study recommended that academics needed to provided online database access to the academics and organised more training on different search strategy and approaches on use of the online databases in order to improve their teaching and research activities